If you like Knives, this is the thread!

[DrakinClaw]

https://www.trueswords.com/


awsome site, good prices. i just ordered a slick Ka-Bar from them. Their 420 stainless steel maces are pretty cool to for $24! Ah i just like that sorta stuff.
Drakin

[den9]

420 ss is garbage!

[Arcana71]

420 ss is garbage!

True, but...

Their 420 stainless steel maces are pretty cool to for $24!

If I dare say so, a MACE doesn't have to hold an edge. So in the instance mentioned above, it may actually serve well. Just a thought.

Marc

[phillyd2]

A little off topic but have you guys ever heard of the custom that whenever giving a knife as a gift you should also give a penny? Well, I have always done this but for Christmas I bought my gf a nice Benchmark and the dealer never heard of the custom. I always thought this was standard practice.

Official:

In cultures ranging from Latin America to Asia, giving a knife symbolizes severing a relationship. You give a knife to indicate that you are no longer friends. Among the Bavarian peasants, when a friendship is severed by the gift of a knife or pair of scissors, the untoward result may be averted if the recipient smiles pleasantly when the gift is made.

Since it is considered bad luck to give a gift of a knife, money is usually included for the recipient to "buy" the knife. The traditional amount to include with the knife (at least in the USA) is a penny.

[jdlv4_0]

Which K.A.B.A.R. Did you get?

Also, a little history on the KA-BAR, KA-BAR actually stands for: Knife Assocated w/ Browning Automatic Rifle. The BAR was too heavy to try and use with a bayonet attached so the automatic rifleman was issued a seperate knife to use in severly close combat.

Currently in the Marine Corps, if you are not issued a weapon capable of fixing a bayonet to , you are issued a KA-BAR. Atleast untill the new dual purpose bayonet is fully iuused: http://www.ontarioknife.com/milissue.html which will replce the KA-BAR and the M9 Bayonet.

[LorDiego01]

uuuuuuhhH!!!

They also sell 8 foot bull whips and handcuffs!! Kinky!!!

Thanks for the site buddy!

[aubie515]

phillyd2, interesting information....thanks.

I don't know about you Diego, but I especially like the "ninja gear" link. lol

[JayBell]

Oh, I'm full service on the weapons...especially those as an alternate to guns

I love knives...axes, combat tomahawks, and swords.
I have a hand forged differntially tempered Zatoichi (blind swordsman) style cane katana thats sick sharp.

Below is a Paul Chen hand forged Tanto. Differentially tempered folded steel, buffalo horn endcaps and forecap, gold menuki over genuine rayskin covered handle...thats a genuine hamon (temper line) you see on the blade, not some etched stainless garbage



second pic,
top to bottom:
same Paul Chen tanto

Cold Steel Oyabun (big boss) carbonV steel, kryton handle, epoxy coated blade

Cold Steel Master Tanto, San Mai III layered bonded steel, steel tsuba and endcap, kryton handle

Emerson Specwar B combat folder



Nepalese Kukhri House British Service Issue Kukhri
buffalo horn handle, brass endcaps, differentially tempered handforged steel blade.
this is the official Issue Kukhri for the Gurkha Regiments



waiting on my Cold Steel Warrior Series Katana to be delivered now...and my crate of combat wound dressings, just in case

also, dont underestimate a quality bullwhip as a weapon.
I have a 7 foot Bullwhip made of paracord, by Dane Dobesh, a professional whipmaker.
He strips the interior coarding out of the paracord, and builds a 16 plait whip around a paracord core thats full of steel BBs to give it weight...and the paracord is near indestructable, except by fire, it wont rot, or break, and each strand has a tentile strength of 500+ pounds.

I have practiced extensively with it, and can break bottles, and cut cards.

A proper whip handler could blind you, or even cut your throat with the popper, or fall, before you can get a hand up to block.

[DrakinClaw]

420 ss is garbage!

Well anyone in their right mind who is going to buy a survival knife is not going to buy 420 ss. However for a showpiece and to swing around for fun, and for simply just the looks and decent price, IMO i think its not bad 440 or higher.
Drak

ps. as to what ka-bar i got.....
http://www.trueswords.com/kabar-fixed-blade-p-2603.html
supposedly some of the toughest stuff around, i decided to spend that lil extra to get a high quality survival knife, lol you dont want it breaking in while in the moment! haha

[jdlv4_0]

That's definately a good knife, I've got a few that I want to mount in a display case along with my AK bayonet.